City's home game against Liverpool has also been moved. The meeting at the King Power Stadium has been given the lunchtime slot on Saturday, September 1 (12.30pm kick-off), also for coverage on Sky Sports.

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Leicester City's Premier League fixtures

The Friday night fixture against United means Leicester will have opened the season for the last three seasons.

City began their Premier League title defence at Hull in 2016 as the season's curtain-raiser, before playing on Friday night last year, too, in the 4-3 ding-dong at Arsenal where Leicester led 3-2 with eight minutes to play.

The trip to Old Trafford now comes six days after City's final pre-season game at Lille, in France, on August 4.